Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] by [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In utter darkness , breathing rank air and deafened by the breakers outside , he kept himself alive by groping around for newly hatched swiftlet nestlings and the grubs which thrive in the dung on the cave floor . |
| 2 | To cope with the aftershock , Mr Perez has made himself unpopular by bringing in painful economic reforms . |
| 3 | He kept walking ; there was little point in making them suspicious by turning round and retracing his steps . |
| 4 | ‘ If I make you nervous by standing here , please say so . ’ |
| 5 | It is a bizarre tale , and Cobb makes it memorable by hitting just the right note of horror , amusement and disbelief . |
| 6 | With equal determination , Annie was making it clear by chatting away happily to Ibn Fayoud and his schoolgirl friend that it would be rude to leave before the dancing had been under way for half an hour or so . |
| 7 | ‘ But , until we do , you can make yourself useful by binding up this hole in my arm before I give you the pleasure of bleeding to death . ’ |
| 8 | If , by a stroke of luck , the knife is dropped , do n't make yourself vulnerable by bending down to pick it up ; jump in and kick it out of reach . |
| 9 | If in doubt about what to do next , keep yourself busy by going around and changing all the name plates : in a move scarcely calculated to do much to restore battered confidence in the company , IBM Corp 's shrunken Cadam Inc , the Burbank , California company that now confines itself to the microcomputer versions of the computer-aided design software , has changed its name to Altium , effective immediately : it says the Altium name is part of its plan to secure the unit 's position in the desktop market and ‘ a part of the larger renewal ’ of IBM . |